The abstracts and presentations of the lectures of the respective speakers can be found - as soon as they are made available to us - on the speakers page.
(In the Topic field in the following table, after the description of the lecture, you will find the link “detailed program”, this links to the speaker's page. If provided by the speaker, there are PDF downloads for the short version and the lecture )
PDF Download of preliminary program
IOB Congress 2021 – preliminary program
Motto: Nature-based solutions
| Day/hour | Event | Topic | Referent |
| 6.10.21 8.30 | Entry | 1st conference day at Hotel Resort Club Med Albufeira | During this day, until 18 h voting for Pondy Award |
| 9:00 | Opening | Welcome speech IOB Diversity & Evolution more | Stefan Meier, IOB Claudia Schwarzer, GIABN |
| 9:30 | 1st lecture | Investigation project: Perception of swimming ponds by tourists | Udo Schwarzer (P) |
| 10:00 | 2nd lecture | Swimming ponds in Chile | Francisco Torres (CL) |
| 10:30 | coffee break | ||
| 11:00 | 3rd lecture | Regulation of NSP in the USA | Allen Schnaak, ASPNSP |
| 11:30 | 4th lecture | Certification for the operation of Natural Pools | Hannes Kurzreuther |
| 12:00 | 5th lecture | Presentation of an indoor NSP | Richard Zauner (AU) |
| 12:30 | lunch break | ||
| 14:00 | Workshop A | Cleaning by divers (Workshop at the swimming pond) | Pedro Couto (P) Carla Couto (P) |
| 14:00 | Workshop B | Water plants (Workshop at the swimming pond) | Marielle Godefroy (P) Udo Schwarzer (P) |
| 14:00 | Workshop C | Indoor NSP – how to do? (Workshop in the conference room) | Stefan Bruns & Hans Graf |
| 16:00 | coffee break | ||
| 16:30 | 6th lecture | Ecological Footprint of NSP 2.0 | Tim Koehler & Max Colditz (DGfnB) |
| 17:15 | 7th lecture | Benefits of quality management in the Austrian Association | Franz Kubacek (A) |
| 18:00 | End | ||
| 19:00 | Pondy Award, presentation of the winners | ||
| 20:00 | Gala Diner | Pondy Award, presentation of |
| Day/hour | Event | Topic | Referent |
| 7.10.21 8.30 | Entry | 2nd conference day at Hotel Resort Club Med Albufeira | |
| 9:00 | 8th lecture | Impact of material selection on the CO2 footprint of NSP | Nina Röttgers (D) |
| 9:45 | 9th lecture | DANA 2.0 – Online control and management system for natural pools | Hannes Kurzreuther, Petra Huge (D) |
| 10:30 | coffee break | ||
| 11:00 | 10th lecture | Developing the formulas – easy modelling of NSP projects | Wolfgang Wesner (A) & Heinz Jaksch (A) |
| 12:00 | 11th lecture | SoGreen - Together for a Green Europe | Stefan Meier (ES) (D) |
| 12:30 | lunch break | ||
| 14:00 | 12th lecture | Considering Water treatment in High Frontier | James Robyn (USA) |
| 14.30 | 13th lecture | Plants choice for NSP in Colombia | Jairo Villegas (ES) |
| 15.00 | 14th lecture | Blue connect – online water values from your natural swimming pool | Udo Schwarzer (P) |
| 15:30 | coffee break | ||
| 16:00 | 15th lecture | Realtime Zooplankton monitoring | Stefan Bruns (D) |
| 16:30 | 16th lecture | Presentation of Common Essentials in planning and building NSP | Claudia Schwarzer |
| 17:00 | End | End of conference |
| Day/hour | Event | Topic | Referent |
| 8.10.21 | Congress Plus day at Hotel Resort Club Med Albufeira | ||
| 9:00 | IOB Anual general meeting | IOB | |
| 11:00 | Coffee brake | IOB Workshop/open discussion | |
| 12:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:00 | Open discussions | ||
| 17:00 | End |